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Show TOO LATE. Mauch Chunk, 11 When the governor's reprieve arrived at the this morning, a ecene of intense excitement ex-citement occurred, but, although the culprits had only been hanging a few moments, there was no movement tow.ird cutting them down. The telegraph tele-graph messenger reached thejail door before the drop fell, but no heed was taken lo his knocking and ringing, the wife ot ono of the culprits having been previously extremely violent outside. out-side. When tho drop fell tlie knock-( iag and ringing continued and the sheriff aent a mnu out to arrest the: parties whom he imagined to be creating the disturbance. It wub then found to be a telegraph messenger with a reprieve. A brother of Mo-Doiinelt, Mo-Doiinelt, who had been keeling by the scaflold, arose and excitedly charged the sheriff arjd bystanders, with the murder of his brother.' The excitement spread and the sheriff appealed to one of tho pripoti, wtioj exonerated him from blame. Amidst this excitement, and the reproachcB uf the maddened brother of McDonald, and the wailing of the bereaved families fam-ilies oulside. the culprits seem to have been forgotten, and they remained ' banging for thirty minutes alter the drop fell. Tiiere iB no reasonable doubt, however, that they were both dead when the reprieve came. After tho bodies wero out down they wero placed in cotBus and given to their families, whese cries could bo heard for several blocks, adding greatly to tho prevail ing excitement. |